Protected Area: Sågargatan
On the cottage in the middle you can see the timber frame and the corner joints. The small black box in the window is known as a "gossip mirror". This device allowed people in the house to study life on the street and see who was passing by. The other houses are panelled and the corner joints are boxed in.
Most of the cottages on the mountain Åsöberget were built in the middle of the 1700s. Workers at the nearby shipyard, their families and people connected to the harbour lived here then.
sv.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sågargatan (website in Swedish)
The houses fell into decay during the first half of the 1900s. It was not until 1956 that the Stockholm City Council decided to improve the housing. In some cases the decay had gone so far that new houses had to be built, using old material. The renovated houses were given modern facilities.
The houses are part of the protected area "Åsöbergets Reservatsområde".
sv.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Åsöberget (website in Swedish)
Red houses are typical for Sweden. The traditional red paint contains pigment from the copper-mine in Falun, Dalecarlia.
Protected Area: Sågargatan
On the cottage in the middle you can see the timber frame and the corner joints. The small black box in the window is known as a "gossip mirror". This device allowed people in the house to study life on the street and see who was passing by. The other houses are panelled and the corner joints are boxed in.
Most of the cottages on the mountain Åsöberget were built in the middle of the 1700s. Workers at the nearby shipyard, their families and people connected to the harbour lived here then.
sv.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sågargatan (website in Swedish)
The houses fell into decay during the first half of the 1900s. It was not until 1956 that the Stockholm City Council decided to improve the housing. In some cases the decay had gone so far that new houses had to be built, using old material. The renovated houses were given modern facilities.
The houses are part of the protected area "Åsöbergets Reservatsområde".
sv.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Åsöberget (website in Swedish)
Red houses are typical for Sweden. The traditional red paint contains pigment from the copper-mine in Falun, Dalecarlia.